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by awa 16y ago
The point is whether they are less secure than paper ballots. Is it more trivial to tamper with these machines change/destroy valid paper ballots in a similar situation. I think the machines are put in a secure location when they are being
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by awa 16y ago
I'm interested too
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by awa 16y ago
They are run by the same management, the money for MSR really comes from sales of Windows and Office, and most research done is to explore future features of MS products
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Baidu 1Q jumps 165 percent, topping forecasts(huffingtonpost.com)
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by awa 17y ago
Palm had this potential a few years back. Netflix is one, you could have bout one of their shares instead of the monthly subscription and would have had 10 times that now. IMAX is another, so will be Facebook when and if they go public.
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by awa 17y ago
what about sales tax?
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by awa 17y ago
Came across this, VP Biden donated about $4820 to charity last year.
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by awa 17y ago
During the time when Google came up, there was a considerable interest in search engines in academia, E.g. Some papers by Udi Manber, a prof at Uni of Arizona at that time had these papers: U. Manber, and Peter Bigot, ``The Search Broker,''
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Microsoft taps free Windows 7 Touch Pack | Microsoft - CNET News(news.cnet.com)
1 points by awa 17y ago|0 comments
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Arizona governor signs immigration bill(cnn.com)
5 points by awa 17y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft wins piracy case against Chinese company(computerworld.com)
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by awa 17y ago
So do you think all MS earnings announcement are suitable for hacker news? I have no issues with links to cool research going on in MS or a new release. But I just can't seem to understand regular earnings being posted here.
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by awa 17y ago
Atleast let me know why are you downvoting me?
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by awa 17y ago
Rant: Why is this "Hacker news"? This is nothing spectacular, almost everything was in line with analyst estimates. They are suppose to do this every quarter... I can understand Apple earning stories coz they were out of ordinary. If it sta
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by awa 17y ago
Nope they can artificially increase the price by hoarding and making it less available. Think about any commodity... everyone needs sugar/salt, what if somebody starts buying all the sugar from the market and hoards it... some people will
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by awa 17y ago
I would recommend trying out one of the tours E.g Using the Observing Time pane Tour http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/default.aspx?tou...
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World Wide Telescope (MS research project)(worldwidetelescope.org)
1 points by awa 17y ago|1 comments
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by awa 17y ago
upvoted for the quote
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by awa 17y ago
The stock is just following S&P 500 and not dropping on its own http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
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by awa 17y ago
Well if you have your own employees apart from the regular salaries you have to pay for health insurance/401k/Social security/Gym membership etc. which can add up to a lot. Infy can do it cheaper coz not only they are paying in Indian Rupee
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by awa 17y ago
Afaik, It's not about efficiency, it's about cost. It is much more expensive to hire your own people to do it than outsource to Infosys.
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by awa 17y ago
I think they will use their own software, only it will be supported by Infosys.
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by awa 17y ago
Are you an 15yr old girl??? Your website shows a much older guy :P Microsoft has made a point to make this phone totally unlike iPhone with the Physical keyboard and Smaller form-factor and even going with Verizon rather than AT&T and t
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by awa 17y ago
[but if everybody under the age of 22 is all about FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS then the world will soon collapse] Friends Friends Friends is the new way to network, isn't networking one of the things they preach to everyone for everything (find
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Live from Microsoft’s Project Pink Unveiling(mobilecrunch.com)
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by awa 17y ago
And Microsoft just announced they silverlight can work on iPhone/iPad using IIS Media Services http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/08/silverlight_media_se...
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by awa 17y ago
Me and my wife use fogbugz (free 2 user license) to do this.
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by awa 17y ago
or make profits through sales of movie tickets by giving a better theater experience (air conditioning vs. no air conditioning) Some of the movies are already doing that with IMAX and 3d technology.
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by awa 17y ago
they support odf now..which is a open standard. Also, the author should note that development of office 2010 had already started when these changes were asked for.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the yardstick for Wikipedia entries(blogs.msdn.com)
13 points by awa 17y ago|12 comments

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